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This list compiles incidents alleged or proved to be due to police brutality that attracted significant media or historical attention. Many cases are alleged to be of brutality; some cases are more than allegations, with official reports concluding that a crime was committed by police, with some criminal convictions for offences such as grievous bodily harm, planting evidence and wrongful arrest.
The shooting deaths of Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams, two Black American individuals, occurred in East Cleveland, Ohio on November 29, 2012, at the conclusion of a 22-minute police chase which started in downtown Cleveland, when police erroneously claimed shots were fired at them as Russell and Williams drove by a squad car; the cause of the shots was their vehicle's exhaust pipe ...
A former Ohio police officer was convicted of murder by a jury on Monday for fatally shooting Andre Hill, an unarmed Black man. Adam Coy, a white man and nearly 20-year veteran of the Columbus ...
On April 20, 2021, Ma'Khia Bryant, a 16-year-old girl, [2] was fatally shot by police officer Nicholas Reardon in southeast Columbus, Ohio. [3] Released body camera and security camera footage show Bryant brandishing a knife and charging two women consecutively, leading up to the moment Officer Reardon fired four shots; Bryant was struck at least once.
Former Columbus police officer Adam Coy (with beard and seated center) shows little emotion before the jury's verdict finding him guilty of murder and other charges in the 2020 shooting death of ...
Tyson's case was the third fatal incident involving Canton police officers to be heard by a grand jury this year. In the earlier cases, the grand jury did not charge the officers.
Hill was unarmed, and was holding a smartphone. Coy was fired from the Columbus Police less than a week later. [1] [2] The shooting was the second killing by police in Columbus in December 2020, following the shooting of Casey Goodson on December 4 by a Franklin County Sheriff's deputy. [3] Coy's trial would begin in October 2024. [4]
(Reuters) -Police killed Jayland Walker, a Black man in Ohio, by shooting him dozens of times as he ran from officers following a traffic stop, a lawyer for his family said, citing a review of ...